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Don’T Lock Trump Up, Just Because Mueller Said You Can, Bruce Ledewitz Jul 2019

Don’T Lock Trump Up, Just Because Mueller Said You Can, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.


July 19, 2019: Justice Stevens R.I.P., Bruce Ledewitz Jul 2019

July 19, 2019: Justice Stevens R.I.P., Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Justice Stevens R.I.P.“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


July 14, 2019: Adam Gopnik Vs David Frum, Bruce Ledewitz Jul 2019

July 14, 2019: Adam Gopnik Vs David Frum, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Adam Gopnik vs David Frum“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


July 4, 2019: Happy Fourth, Bruce Ledewitz Jul 2019

July 4, 2019: Happy Fourth, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Happy Fourth“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Scotus Gerrymandering Case: Roberts Didn’T Defend Constitutional Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz Jul 2019

Scotus Gerrymandering Case: Roberts Didn’T Defend Constitutional Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.


June 29, 2019: All Our Problems Are Related, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2019

June 29, 2019: All Our Problems Are Related, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “All Our Problems are Related“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


June 27, 2019: Sohrab Ahmari Doesn’T Believe In God, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2019

June 27, 2019: Sohrab Ahmari Doesn’T Believe In God, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Sohrab Ahmari Doesn’t Believe in God“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


June 23, 2019: All The Justices Get Religion Wrong Again, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2019

June 23, 2019: All The Justices Get Religion Wrong Again, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “All the Justices Get Religion Wrong Again“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


June 22, 2019: What The Supreme Court Should Have Said, But Didn't, In The Maryland Cross Case, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2019

June 22, 2019: What The Supreme Court Should Have Said, But Didn't, In The Maryland Cross Case, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “What the Supreme Court Should Have Said, But Didn't, in the Maryland Cross Case“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


June 15, 2019: The Age Of Pessimism, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2019

June 15, 2019: The Age Of Pessimism, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Age of Pessimism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


June 8, 2019: The No-Prosecution Pledge, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2019

June 8, 2019: The No-Prosecution Pledge, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The No-Prosecution Pledge“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


June 5, 2019: Babbling Barr, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2019

June 5, 2019: Babbling Barr, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Babbling Barr“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


June 1, 2019: King Trump, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2019

June 1, 2019: King Trump, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “King Trump“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


A Common Enterprise: Law And The Connection Between Civil And Heavenly Realms In The Writings Of John Calvin, Kenneth L. Townsend May 2019

A Common Enterprise: Law And The Connection Between Civil And Heavenly Realms In The Writings Of John Calvin, Kenneth L. Townsend

Concordia Law Review

The common ends that once united spiritual and civil realms have been privatized as those ends have come to be seen as controversial and plural, rather than unifying and common. Acknowledging the diversity of ends resulted in increased attention to uniform rules. Since there was no longer agreement about what teloi mattered for society, law gradually lost its aspirational features and became simply a way to limit and punish uncivil and criminal behavior.

The formal separation, but ultimate unity, of civil and heavenly spheres, of norm with vision, articulated by Calvin, allowed him to be both idealistic and realistic about …


May 19, 2019: The Universe Doesn’T Care About Your Purpose, Bruce Ledewitz May 2019

May 19, 2019: The Universe Doesn’T Care About Your Purpose, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Universe Doesn’t Care About Your Purpose“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


May 15, 2019: What Impeachment And Court-Packing Have In Common, Bruce Ledewitz May 2019

May 15, 2019: What Impeachment And Court-Packing Have In Common, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “What Impeachment and Court-packing Have in Common“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


May 4, 2019: Why Study Talmud?, Bruce Ledewitz May 2019

May 4, 2019: Why Study Talmud?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Why Study Talmud?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


April 29, 2019: Building Cosmopolis, Bruce Ledewitz Apr 2019

April 29, 2019: Building Cosmopolis, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “ Building Cosmopolis“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


April 21, 2019: More Religious Violence, Bruce Ledewitz Apr 2019

April 21, 2019: More Religious Violence, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “More Religious Violence“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


April 19, 2019: God: The Bait And Switch, Bruce Ledewitz Apr 2019

April 19, 2019: God: The Bait And Switch, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “God: the Bait and Switch“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


April 14, 2019: Two Cases Of Independence--The Court And The Fed--And What They Tell Us About American Nihilism, Bruce Ledewitz Apr 2019

April 14, 2019: Two Cases Of Independence--The Court And The Fed--And What They Tell Us About American Nihilism, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “ Two Cases of Independence--the Court and the Fed--and What They Tell Us About American Nihilism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


April 7, 2019: The Universal Christ, Bruce Ledewitz Apr 2019

April 7, 2019: The Universal Christ, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Universal Christ“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


March 31, 2019: When Cynicism Came To The West, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 2019

March 31, 2019: When Cynicism Came To The West, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “When Cynicism Came to the West“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


March 24, 2019: The Two Party Lies That Fuel Political Alienation In America, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 2019

March 24, 2019: The Two Party Lies That Fuel Political Alienation In America, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Two Party Lies that Fuel Political Alienation in America“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


The Supreme Court Will Preserve The Bladensburg Cross, But It Matters How, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 2019

The Supreme Court Will Preserve The Bladensburg Cross, But It Matters How, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.”


March 17, 2019: The Response To My Anti-Court-Packing Message, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 2019

March 17, 2019: The Response To My Anti-Court-Packing Message, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Response to My anti-Court-Packing Message“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


March 10, 2019: Best Column Even By Thomas Friedman, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 2019

March 10, 2019: Best Column Even By Thomas Friedman, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Best Column Even by Thomas Friedman“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Reconsidering Christianity As A Support For Secular Law: A Final Reply To Professor Calhoun, Wayne R. Barnes Mar 2019

Reconsidering Christianity As A Support For Secular Law: A Final Reply To Professor Calhoun, Wayne R. Barnes

Wayne R. Barnes

This symposium has revolved around Professor Calhoun’s article, which posits that it is completely legitimate, in proposing laws and public policies, to argue for them in the public square based on overtly religious principles. In my initial response, I took issue with his argument that no reasons justify barring faith-based arguments from the public square argument. In fact, I do find reasons justifying the prohibition of “faith-based,” or Christian, arguments in the public square—and, in fact, I find such reasons within Christianity itself. This is because what is being publicly communicated in Christian political argumentation is that if citizens comply …


March 7, 2019: Network Message Endorses Nihilism, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 2019

March 7, 2019: Network Message Endorses Nihilism, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Network Message Endorses Nihilism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


February 28, 2019: The Communitarian Collapse In America, Bruce Ledewitz Feb 2019

February 28, 2019: The Communitarian Collapse In America, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Communitarian Collapse in America“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.